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Looking For Some Summer Reads? Check Out These Recommendations From NPR's Petra Mayer

Are you looking for something to read on your summer vacation? A new memoir by Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor is just one suggestion for books you might want to check out.
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Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley gets some summer reading suggestions and an update on the NPR Books Summer Poll 2021 from Petra Mayer of NPR Books.

Summer Reading Recommendations From NPR’s Petra Meyer

Remembrances,” Sinead O’Connor — O’Connor proves she packs a punch on the page as well as on the airwaves in this unsparing memoir about her life. Read it to find out how she really felt about tearing up a picture of the Pope on live TV!

“” Zakiya Dalila Harris — This summer’s buzziest thriller. Harris draws on her own experience in publishing

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